NVIDIA Editors' Day Report at GameSpy

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Impressions of some upcoming titles that were seen running on the graphics technology company's latest hardware

By IGN Staff

Sony's EverQuest II, Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes and ION Storm's Thief: Deadly Shadows were among the games utilized to show off the capabilities of the NV40 chip that will form the mainstay of NVIDIA's upcoming line of graphics cards at a media event yesterday in San Francisco. GameSpy's reportage includes some brief wordage on the latter title:

First up was Ion Storm, showing off the third game in the revered Thief series, Deadly Shadows. Of course, we were seeing the PC version running on the new NV40 tech, not the Xbox version, and I'll admit I didn't realize how close the game was to completion -- according to Ion, the game is entering its final phases and the team is hoping it will be in stores this June.

It was somewhat interesting to see a Thief game used in a tech demo, as the series has never been known for cutting-edge graphics. Deadly Shadows probably won't elicit the same ooohs and ahhhs as games like Far Cry and DOOM 3, but we did see a number of pretty scenes. One standout was set in a church, with light being filtered through the windows and dancing off particles in the air.

The article goes on to state that the visuals of Cryptic's game rated among the most eye-catching seen during the course of the day, while the apparent highlight of the EverQuest II display pertained to the level of detail invested in the character models. - Annihilator